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Again, Pikeville's Mountain Top News does just a fantastic job on covering the conversation in Whitesburg ...

"I have an alternate proposal. Suppose both sides of the story are told."

Midway will celebrate Juneteenth, officially.

The Bowling Green-Warren County Coronavirus Workgroup had a happy surprise on its regular conference call Wednesday.

Bardstown and Nelson County roll out another round of small-biz relief.

A weekend Kentucky Headhunters show at the Beaver Dam Amphitheatre delivered a big boost for the Ohio County food pantry.

Gabe's is (almost) gone.

Fancy Farm is happening.

Mercer County might be getting its second solar farm.

Vanceburg police is hiring. So's the forthcoming Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel.

The #ohky desk's DQ beat is blowing up of late. You might remember yesterday's dispatch from Columbia. Well, there are Blizzards in the forecast for Princeton, too.

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Catching up from the weekend ...

Christmas parades: Sharpsburg, Nov. 9; Owensboro, Nov. 23; Central City, Nov. 24; Lebanon and Louisville, Nov. 29;  Greensburg, Guthrie and Pikeville, Nov. 30; Boyce, Dawson Springs, Murray, Salem and Sebree, Dec. 1; Bardstown, Dec. 5; Clay, Fredonia, Harrodsburg, Irvine/Ravenna, London, Maysville, Monticello, Pineville, Richmond, Smiths Grove, Stanton and Trenton, Dec. 6; Arlington, Barbourville, Beattyville, Berea, Bloomfield, Bowling Green,  romley/Ludlow, Brownsville, Cadiz, Calvert City, Carlisle, Clinton, Columbia, Corbin, Cynthiana, Danville, East Bernstadt, Frankfort, Glasgow, Grayson, Greenville, Hawesville, Henderson, Horse Cave, Inez, Lawrenceburg, Leitchfield, Lexington, Madisonville, Marion, Middlesboro, Morgantown, Munfordville, Murray, Owingsville, Paducah, Prestonsburg, Rabbit Hash, Raceland, Russell Springs, Salyersville, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Somerset, Trenton, Versailles, Whitley City and Winchester, Dec. 7; Auburn, Georgetown and New Haven, Dec. 8, and Augusta, Benton, Burkesville, Burnside, Campbellsville, Cave City, Edmonton, Elkton, Franklin, Hopkinsville, Louisa, Mayfield, Providence, Tollesboro, Williamsburg and Woodburn, Dec. 14.

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Kentucky's local "Lights for Liberty" vigils to end family separation and human concentration camps are scheduled to take place Friday at 9 p.m. locally in Danville, Florence, Frankfort, Lexington, Louisville and Paris so far.

$477 million in federal grant money for airport infrastructure is rolling in to Campbellsville, Falmouth, Greenville, London, Owensboro and Sparta, announced U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao (McConnell).

Spoiler alert: Probably not, surmises FiveThirtyEight.

At the Northpoint Training Center in Burgin, the state is piloting a program designed to help inmates not return to using illegal drugs after their release.

Shelby County's volunteer fire departments are shorthanded.

Southern Living is all about the free Kentucky River water-quality knowledge that Kentucky State University is dropping on us this summer.

I think the Chemical Coaters Association Intl. (CCAI) of Independence made an outstanding choice for its James F. & David J. Wright Lifetime Achievement Award winner.

A man shot and killed Monday in southwest Louisville is being remembered as a "great" youth football coach: https://t.co/WqtZSZ2WcQ | @FallonGlick pic.twitter.com/tNZAJpd1Ls

— WDRB News (@WDRBNews) July 10, 2019

Rest in peace, ex-UK Wildcat Jared Lorenzen, and way to go, former U of L Cardinals Deion Branch, Jamon Brown and Chris Redman.

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Good jobs news from Bowling Green. Bad jobs news from Bowling Green.

Editorial roundup:

-- The Floyd County Chronicle: "The Floyd County BOE should speak up about testing troubles"

-- Frankfort's State Journal: "Both sides in mountain bike trail debate need a breather"

Opening Ceremony of Kentucky 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Governors Summit. 👍🏼 @ThinkKentucky @GovMattBevin @NatlGovsAssoc @Alltech pic.twitter.com/hSGrQXDmQX

— Vivek K. Sarin (@V_Sarin) May 23, 2019

Ace is the place, at last in Brownsville.

Dunkin (such as donuts), soon in Cold Spring.

Taking it to the streets, in Mercer County.

Uplifting "the visions and voices of lesbian filmmakers," in Paducah.

Spinning Merle Travis, Spider Rich, Mose Rager, the Everlys, etc., for the kids in Beechmont.

Rest in peace, Wilton A. Hawkins (1922-2019), secret initiator of $2.5 million scholarship fund in Anderson County.

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Good jobs news from Bowling Green.

The Travel Channel invites us to "Explore the hidden gems of each state: towns with quaint shops and restaurants, fascinating histories, fun experiences and natural beauty." (Spoiler alert: In Kentucky, it's Paducah.)

The Family Dollar is grandly reopening in Morehead.

The Burgin cafeteria is bursting at its seams.

The Henderson County Public Library is exploding across its whole block.

Owensboro angles for more downtown hotel and apartment space.

Wheelwright has a police officer again, and he's reportedly a former police chief let go in Martin.

If you're in Grayson and hankering for crepes, you needn't drive over to Russell any longer.

A second-generation McDonald's franchisee from Winchester wins a "Ronald."

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A beautiful story of hospitality in Junction City, from Bob Kleppinger of Danville's Advocate-Messenger.

Here are the services provided by the Clay County Senior Citizens Center.

Self-defense courses in Winchester will benefit a rape crisis center in Nicholasville.

The Henderson County Detention Center credits e-cigarettes for a more peaceful jail.

Aging director: State, region are growing older https://t.co/7LSaAaRzvP via @KentuckyNewEra pic.twitter.com/RxVMMurNFk

— KY State Data Center (@ky_sdc) July 19, 2017

Hiring at Kenlake. Maybe at Danville's Wilderness Trace Solar, too.

Good jobs news from Harlan. Bad from Somerset.

The state treasurer has been making the rounds in western Kentucky with happy news of unclaimed property. Rejoiced the Lyon County judge-executive yesterday: "$688,000! LYON county citizens have $688,000 sitting in an account in Frankfort under the unclaimed property! KY State Treasurer Allison Ball was in Lyon yesterday and talked to us about Unclaimed Property. We asked they provide us a list of Lyon Countians that have unclaimed $$. We await that list. But in the meantime Krista Grigg in my office has already begun searching names and found many we personally know that have unclaimed money. We are contacting them now."

Simply fantastic detail from Andrew Adkins in Ashland's Daily Independent on a Raceland city-council meeting covering a controversial proposal to build a mobile-home park: "The council, in its typical style, allowed residents to speak seemingly at will, even prior to the scheduled public comment period. At one point, three local residents stood together at the podium and spoke on the same topic. The room was at high capacity. It was also noisy, as members of the crowd and council talked among themselves throughout most of the meeting and a loud air conditioner fan muffled the conversations."

The Holiday Inn Paducah Riverfront is open for biz.

They paved El Chico, putting up a Qdoba, etc.

The Burgin Bulldogs eye the big time.

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Good jobs news from Louisville and Paducah. Maybe Corbin, too?

Kentucky's lieutenant governor is pushing STEM for girls.

Nothing more important than hospitality, and hooray for Madisonville's First Presbyterian Church.

Meanwhile, in Louisville, “we will continue to monitor the efforts of the new administration and work with our community partners to respond appropriately."

It's really closer to Fairdealing than to Benton, but hooray for KFVS for its story on the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Camp Kum-Ba-Ya's eclipse event.

February grocery gleaners needed in Lexington.

"Hate-filled" Burgin.

Check out this awesome oil picture hanging in the library of West Main Street in Morganfield, KY from 1905....I was 9 years old at the time! pic.twitter.com/tBEuJEH8lg

— Earle C. Clements (@SenatorClements) January 26, 2017

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Happy Inauguration Day, America! 🇺🇸🎈💥🎉🎊🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/9j69M2v14n

— Matt Bevin (@MattBevin) January 20, 2017

The good news is that Kentucky's unemployment rate has ticked down almost another point during Gov. Bevin's first year in office. The bad news is that, with the reduction from 51 to 20 of the offices handling unemployment claims around the state, it means, for example, having to find a way to get to Elizabethtown if you turn up out of a job in Bardstown.

There's a new wealth-management firm in Hazard's Black Gold Shopping Center.

What's the deal with the backlog in testing DNA sample kits from sexual-assault cases?

Burgin's mayor has fired Burgin's only police officer.

Rest in peace, passed volunteers and employees of Baptist Health Corbin hospital.

For the third straight season, Boston's Barktown is sending a team to the Puppy Bowl.

Yet another sign of the apocalypse? pic.twitter.com/gJRU76AnS1

— Joe Gerth (@Joe_Gerth) January 20, 2017

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Western Kentucky will be a hot spot of eclipse hubbub next summer.

Syrian refugees are scheduled to begin arriving in Bowling Green this fall.

Two Pikeville entrepreneurs have converted an old Coke-bottling plant as a facility to train former coal miners to code.

Or, says the Fed, another "option is through 'creative placemaking' in which partners from disparate sectors use arts and culture activities to strategically shape the character of a region or neighborhood. It’s an integrative approach to neighborhood planning and economic development, encouraging local communities to use their distinctive resources, cultural diversity, and unique attributes to stimulate their economies."

Burgin, in Mercer County, will soon be home to Kentucky's largest solar array.

I like pictures of food, and I might start posting them pretty frequently.

Who loves Chicken Tenders? Get 'em hot, fresh and delicious on the buffet! pic.twitter.com/9up0u1qoEe

— Sirloin Stockade (@SirloinMurrayKY) April 20, 2016

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Rest in peace, Mr. Sullivan, Kentucky Utilities transmission supervisor, Burgin Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) deacon and Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame umpire.

My favorite NFL player, Yeremiah Bell, really, really liked The Roy Kidd Show.

Your Kentucky Colonels

have really come to play!

"If it's 6 o'clock in the morning and you want a shrimp dinner, you'll get a shrimp dinner."

"If you're a ventriloquist, it's the cultural center of your world."

@Kentuckyweather Cumberland Falls yesterday - quite powerful to see in person all flooded from all the rain here! pic.twitter.com/2YF9SywFN8
— Jessica Blankenship (@kycountrymusic) July 8, 2013

Good jobs news from Hoptown and Lexington. Also, Covington? Bad from Lexington.

Ray Long's winding journey through Bell County grocery history.

Lynch's new police chief is 23.

No. 14 in the nation!

Not so fast, Wickliffe.

The 270 is going to 10-digit dialing.

Take that, haters!

Take that, ... um ... what?

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“It feels great to come in here and win it after Emma, who was my role model.”

The KHSAA boys' golf tournament starts tomorrow in Bowling Green (not today, as previously said here. The Kentucky desk regrets the error.)

Good jobs news from Lexington.

A mall is in the works for Oak Grove, and a 12-screen theater is part of the plan.

The coolest items among this menu of stuff for sale at Webster County's surplus auction in Providence is the jail's old deep fryer and golf carts from Wildwood Golf Course.

Ungrounded on Lake Barkley.

Can you find Christians in Lawrenceburg? 

Kentucky's Disciples of Christ are assembling in Louisville.

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Kentucky's flags are at half-staff today.

The return of yard-sale season was hailed just last weekend by my wife.

Farmers-market season, too.

Just one more week until Beef Month.

All of the above. All. All?

Again: the good jobs news from Cadiz. Bad from Wheelwright.

Toward the goal of good in Edmonton and Columbia.

Hoptown is home to one of Toyota's top technicians.

Oh, man, I would so love to be hitting the Saint Paul Lutheran German-food booth Thursday and the Metropolitan Hotel fish fry Friday.

John Mellencamp is coming to Bowling Green by a bank.

A simply terrific story (even with the "University of Western Kentucky" gaffe) on Morganfield's Dwane Casey, coach of the Toronto Raptors.